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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to stand trial in 2020
- banachtarski 7y agoThe best defense they can offer is that Carreyrou was too good of a journalist. I hope to god the jury is not lenient here in the face of overwhelmingly damning evidence. This was a matter of defrauding not just investors, but putting lives at risk and ruining careers in the process.
- amznthrowaway2 7y agoRuining careers? Not always. Mona Ramamurthy, former head of Theranos HR and Sunny Balwani's right hand woman, was one of the most egregious offenders and later got a job as senior HR at google. Google was probably most impressed by her treatment of the H1Bs at Theranos, since they have the same needs.
- crsv 7y agoWait so the defense's case centers around the idea that Carreyrou had too much influence over regulators by providing extensive evidence, witness testimony, and analysis by objective third party specialists? Is this for real? By "eager to break a story" do they mean a kind of eagerness that results in a painstaking effort to build a thorough case that has been scrutinized by the public and media alike? This, like Theranos' tech, can't possibly be viable.
- microtherion 7y ago"And I would have gotten away with it, too, if not for that meddling reporter and his stupid newspaper".
- thrwayxyz 7y agoDoes anyone have the d hn threads about her? Got banned for sexism back in the day for calling her our for being a fraud and not being civil. Hi Doug.
- notus 7y agoI'd be interested to see how you phrased it.
- thrwayxyz 7y agoCan't remember but probably called her a fraud and the people supporting her useful idiots at best and doing more to discredit women in the workplace than the worst misogynist in the inbred backwoods of North Virginia ever could.
- algaeontoast 7y agoGood, we need to set the record straight in SV that this kind of blind bullshitting and manipulation will not be tolerated. Has info been released as to whether or not all of Holme's finances will be frozen prior to trial?